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B. M. REYNOLDS.

SKELETON SKIRT BAND.

No. 341,430! Patented May 4, 1886.

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UNITED STATES ELLA M ATILDA REYNOLDS, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

SKELETON SKIRT-BAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341.430, dated May 4-,1886.

Application filed June 24, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLA MATILDA REY- NOLDS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Skirt-Band, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in womens wearing-apparel; and theobject of my improvements is to provide a garment by which corpulent andshortwaisted women may wear below the hip joints bands, yokes, gathers,and other tops of skirts and underclothing whatsoever pendent from thewaist, thus reducing the artificial and apparently the naturalcircumference of the hips, and lengthening, likewise, the waist. Iattain this object by a skirt-band, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, which consists of two parallel belts, from three to ten inchesapart, designated by A and B in the illustration marked Figure 1, onebelt-,A, passing around the waist, and the other, B, encompassing thehips, being connected by numerous strap-supports, The lower belt,

B, is wider and of a heavier and firmer texture than the upper, A, andis provided with a number of buttons or other catches, indicatedbylittle circles in the drawings, to which are attached theunderclothing aforesaid, and which are severally supported from the up-Serial No. 169,673. (No model.)

- per belt by the strap-connections. As the dotted lines in the diagramshow at D,the supports are fastened on the inside of the lower beltprecisely opposite the buttons or catches, and upon the upper belt at Ethey are looped to slide, so as to be adjustable to any waist. Theseloops, however, are securely fastened to the belt when properlyadjusted, and where measurements of the waist and hips are known theyare superfluous, as the straps are at once secured in their properplaces.

The material used in the skirt-band, with the exception of the textureof the lowerbelt, before mentioned, is belting, webbing, or any otherthin cloth.

Fig. 20f the drawings shows the application of the invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is t The hereindescribed skeleton skirt-band, the sameconsisting of an upper and a lower belt, substantially parallel witheach other, provided with connecting members and with devices forsecuring the ends of the belts together about the person of the wearer,and with means attached to the lower belt for securing the skirtstheretof ELLA MATILDA REYNOLDS.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM S. REYNOLDS, LIzzIE ALBRIGHT.

